to sign because he didn't a wouldn't get in frank assessments. do you think diplomacy still stands a chance? i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody tweets. everybody's on tick, tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have to vote for you in a winter, it's going to be whole there pretty soon. inside story of al jazeera, what's going on in vladimir putin's mind right down. could this war go nuclear. this being on that front team, the golden ticket to electro victory. can americans agree on any immigration policy? is there a middle ground between 0 tolerance and open borders? the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line ah, oblique christmas for so many in the us has the death toll rises from

a severe storm. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. and she has been hitting house with everything she has. ah, i'm a jim, jim. this is al 0 alive from door ha. also coming up the humanitarian consequences of a taliban ban on a women working for 8 agencies in afghanistan as the battle goes on in an important eastern ukrainian city. russia's president insists he's trying to unite his people and a heartfelt message from king charles and his 1st christmas address since the death of his mother. queen elizabeth i cannot thank you enough for the love and sympathy you have shown who hm.

ah, people have died while trapped in their cars as the toll grows from the deep freeze gripping the u. s. there been at least 30 fatalities across several states. and there's a warning. the death count could rise. 12 died in new york state, which is one of the worst hit regions in the city of buffalo. people have been confined to their homes for several days. shebra tonchee reports from washington, dc. ah winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of a u. s. but aunt dick lingered on christmas day with 2 thirds of the country. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. and she has been hitting us, but everything she has since i the late hours of thursday and friday, saturday and now on christmas morning. and this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo star, long story history. the pool,

the temperatures low, any crate of the phenomenon of lake effect, snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean effect center in maine on the atlantic coast. the principle is the same cold a moving over warmer water, grazing intense storms. high winds meant white conditions and some areas even where the snowfall had stopped. many remained wrapped in the homes, homes where power outages are expected to continue due to the blocked roads. it's not just power lines down even though there's a lot of that. it actually is substations are frozen and they now need to bring in equipment to repair the substations to get them back on line. they were bullets of some feeling. they had no choice but to attempt to drive to so called warming stations. as their homes drew ever more frigid, despite advise that driving in white house conditions could lead to death either

from a crash or being stranded in the cold. and some did find themselves trapped in the cause for 2 days. fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska new york and other states. bodies have been found in cars, non snow banks, others in the home after emergency services struggle to arrive in time would be at passengers continue that determined push to try to complete christmas travel only to find another day of thousands of flight cancellations and delays. but the thought is wilcox over the next week, the longer it stays this cold, the more other systems across the state could be challenged. but the good news is it's getting warmer and it's getting warmer each day. this still is an accurate accounting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this was you have another and a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been struggling to cope. she ever chancey al jazeera across the northern border and

canada thousands remain without power in the 2 biggest provinces, ontario and quebec, many flights or cancelled as our train services. some local governments have declared emergencies in the western province of british columbia. a bus rolled on an icy road, killing 4 people. meteorologists are expecting temperatures to rise in the coming week. south of the us, thousands of migrants are camping in the cold and mexico hoping for a reversal of us immigration restrictions. they've spent the christmas weekend and during what mexico's weather services, calling a mass of arctic air temperatures in the border cities of matamoros, henry, and also are hovering around freezing restrictions under title 40 to allow the us to return migrants to mexico without the chance to request assign them many who made it across the border and to el paso, texas are wary of accepting shelter. they fear it could mean being returned to mexico. temperatures in the city or forecast dropped to below 0 degrees celsius.

many of the people who made the journey to the u. s. remain on the streets, some sleeping in the cold, outside of church. ok get us and i want to spend christmas in a place where it is not cold. i would really like to be under a roof just as everyone here would like to spend christmas under a roof because the cold as strong. bob cox has a meteorologist, he says the weather patterns shouldn't have been unexpected. this week we had a large storm that took up residency in the great lakes area and the psychotic or counterclockwise circulation around the storm was feeding the jet stream. the jet stream is coming in on the back side of that and it was driving all the arctic air from up in northern canada, down into the united states and all the way down to the gulf of mexico and over to the east coast. so you had a very high amplitude jet stream flow that was coming straight down from the north and sweeping across the south. now next week as

a jet stream flattens out and goes into more of what we call a zonal flow. more of a west, the east flow that's going to allow the arctic air to look back to the north and for temperatures to moderate in many places. it's true. it's been a significant arctic outbreak that's covered a large portion of the country all the way from the canadian border down to the gulf from mexico. so it has covered a lot of real estate, but you would hope that the power companies would anticipate arctic outbreaks in the winter because they're not uncommon. and we do get arctic arctic air outbreaks . usually a couple of times every winter at least a couple of times. so i think it's something that we're going to have to be ready to deal with on a regular basis because it's happened on a regular basis in the past. heavy snow has almost brought northern and western japan to a standstill. at least 14 people have died since mid december and another 87 injured. the snow trigger to black out in the region of new got to on sunday. 2000 houses are without power. whether officials are telling people to avoid non

essential outings until the snowfall subsides. for foreign aid groups have suspended operations in afghanistan after the taliban government band women from working for them. save the children, care the international rescue committee and norwegian refugee council. so they can't effectively reach people in need. without female staff. afghanistan has reached unprecedented levels of hunger for more than a year, with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food following a drought. the pandemic and decades of war. the un estimates 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023. the economic crisis has worsened since the u . s. froze billions of dollars of assets and foreign donors cut aid after the taliban to take over. the countries also recovering from natural disasters, including flooding in august and an earthquake in june and in monterey, as more. there are limit another restriction on women in afghanistan. this time

they're being told to stay away from work that's crucial to getting humanitarian aid to millions of people. the taliban government is warning non governmental organizations that employ them, risk losing their license to operate in the country. well, the thing i am in a society like i've gone is than way for the past 20 years. they have put so much effort to an african women. they were educated and they served society. these women have supported their families for it is horrible for me to think that me and my generation are forced to experience such a situation. the un, the u. s. and the you say they're deeply concerned. qatar which previously hosted talks and ending the war enough, can't stand cold on the taliban to respect women's right to work. several, a groups are suspending operations between them. they employ thousands of women and provide assistance to millions in need. this was the only option that we had because 1st of all, there's a principle involved that women should be allowed to work on the sun. secondly,

practically, it isn't possible for us to continue our operations if we're not able to work with the male colleagues for them to access, not only but all the population we sent. and i can't work with children if we don't have our female staff on board. so providing life saving services to young children, to infants, providing health care services to pregnant women. and i've got a cultural all that needs to be done with female stuff. the taliban has issued several decrees after season control the country following the withdrawal us forces last year. earlier this week, it bars female students from enrolling and universities. in response, male students walked out of classrooms, and women walked on the streets to protest. after took power and gas down the taliban, promised women fundamental rights, but a year on it systematically excluding them from public life. fenton, missouri,

and al jazeera, the russian president vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. in an interview, putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive in ukraine, arguing ukrainians and russians are one people. he says his government is acting in the interest of our people and that moscow is ready to negotiate and into the conflict ukraine's president says, russia has lost everything, but will continue to try to bring darkness to ukraine. so, so if you could give me a total of only a few days of this year left, we must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time dark and difficult for us. russia has lost everything it codes this year, but it is drawing to compensate for its losses with the gloating over propagandist after the missiles strikes in our country on our energy sector. i know the doctors

will not prevent us from bringing the invaders to their new defeats, but we must be ready for any scenario. 3 ukrainian emergency service workers have been killed in a mine explosion in the person region. official say the men died while the mining and area. it comes a day after 10 people were killed and $58.00 injured in russian shelling and the city of course on. president zalinski condemned the shelling of a busy market as killing for pleasure. charles stratford has more from keith after weeks of these this campaign by moscow targeting energy infrastructure. we know that millions of ukrainians is suffering these rolling blackouts as the authorities try and get as much electricity to as many people as they can with so many of these substations having being hit and of course hard winter conditions. many people with very little heat as well. and meanwhile, the shelling and the fighting continues. we heard from the sources in the eastern

city of cremeans, whole sc the day reporting at least 3 missiles strikes and no specification as to what exactly was hate and no casualties. but it's interesting that credit source, which is the 2nd day that criminals because been it cremmit also is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers. internet's still on the ukrainian control. and it's relatively close to that hot spot town of buck moot. where we have seen and continue to see some of the most intense lighting of this war so far. neither the russians nor the ukrainians really making any progress. so any of the ukrainian falls, he's seemingly keeping them back as russia makes probing. attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. russia parliament is preparing to introduce higher taxes for people who left the country because of the war in ukraine. by early october,

media reported as many as 700000 russians had fled. following president, putin's mobilization of reservists in september, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, the duma says the vast majority of people believe russians who fled had betrayed their country. still ahead on al jazeera, china says it will no longer give out daily cobra, 1900 figures. even as health care workers raise the alarm about its outbreak. ah, ah, we have a batch of rain moving west in the bay and gall hi of one here says details. so it's over sri lanka, the southeast of india, and just pulling into the mall div. so in this so sure we've got showers also the risk of some sundry outbreaks of brain as bob cooler air. well brush into doco by

the end of the week. so i wanted to put that on your radar. we've also got persistent rain falling across the northern slice of borneo island, but actually i think the worst of it will stay out over the open water, but it is feeding rain into indonesia as main island of java on monday. specifically central java province. meantime, dry spells for a huge swath of sumatra and borneo after china we go, it's a gloomy picture from woo hon to shanghai. but look at this throughout the day. i think we'll see some peaks of sun in shanghai with the high of 7 degrees that see effects smell finally starting to wind down for that western side of japan. so that's the forecast on mondays. here is tuesday, the arrows are the wind, so they're not as pronounced. other said mountains tokyo has a high of 11 degrees. is our 1st snow of the season in tater, on 7 degrees. but i think any precipitation on monday is likely to fall as showers . that's a snapshot of your weather. thanks for joining in sir later. ah,

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on a winter storm. this continuing to hammer the us. the worst hit state is new york, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes for days. for foreign aid groups have suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban government band women from working for aid organizations. afghanistan has reached unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food. rushes presidents as the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. vladimir putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through the offensive in ukraine and says moscow was ready to negotiate, to in the conflict. the war between russia and ukraine set the tone for u. s. foreign policy in 2022. rosalyn jordan reports from the u. s. state department in washington dc. on february the 24th international efforts to prevent the russian invasion of ukraine failed. the biden

administration's response sanctioned moscow and give he billions and military assistance even some the war ground on through december present prudence failed, defeating ukraine on the battlefield. he has failed at his land, grabs in south and east. he's failed at erasing ukraine's borders. it's identity is people, it's resilience that widows is deal. it's the u. s. and other western countries looked for ways to punish moscow. oil price caps, travel, and business sanctions, gathering evidence of alleged human rights violations and war crimes. they also used the war to expand nato's membership, but isolating russia wasn't as easy as the us had hoped. i think all wars and in some kind of negotiated solution at some point. the costs so far are not high

enough for russia to conclude that there that it's in their interest to stop. granting people have a lot of background. that said, the u. s. has made it clear it will not send american troops to help ukrainians fight the war in ukraine wasn't the only foreign policy crisis facing the biden administration. it also had to put a lot of time and energy into what it calls it's number one foreign policy priority . the rise of china washington says it wants to compete with beijing not contain it. but it is worried about china's efforts to dominate economic and military relations around the world while ignoring its human rights obligations. the pentagon recently unveiled its newest stealth bomber the b 21. with this warning, the u. s. is watching china's every move. america's defense will always be routed and deterring conflict. so we are again making it plain to any potential folk

the risk and the cause of aggression, far outweigh any conceivable gangs. antony blank and visited countries in southeast asia 3 times and 2022. he also endorsed increased u. s. military support for taiwan. and he went to australia to bolster the new security alliance with it. and the united kingdom blinking also made 4 trips to the middle east. a region where b ging has tried to build closer economic ties. there are a lot of opportunities for you as far as for us businesses for us persons to, to engage with interact with, do business will every day with people in these parts of the world. china's just taken the lead on that because they see an opportunity efforts to recalibrate ties with saudi arabia were complicated despite a presidential trip to saudi arabia. in july, the u. s. is now reviewing its economic and political relationship with re yard

because of a rift over global oil prices. critics have also attacked washington's decision to not let the fiance of jamica shoji su crown prince mohammed been solomon for the journalists, murder, and 2018. the u. s made a little progress in resurrecting the nuclear deal with iran. it's not clear when a new round of negotiations will happen. prospects for peace talks between israelis and palestinians were also dim. though late in 2022. a do special representative for palestinian affairs was appointed the u. s. and its allies couldn't stop north korea's nuclear weapons program or even prevent it from test firing dozens of holistic missile. and despite the n r he on the streets of haiti's capital, the u. s. and other countries have yet to decide if they will send an armed troops

. this at the request of president a halo li. looming over all of this though, is the warring ukraine. a challenge, the u. s. has argued must be defeated. if respect for the rule of law and for self determination is to endure rosalyn jordan alger 0, washington thousands have rallied in the corner car box largest city of st. upon a carrot to protest against the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks as ever by johnny activists have blocked the latch and corridor demonstrating against what they call illegal mining or media accuses thereby john of staging. the demonstration to create a humanitarian crisis. and the armenian majority enclave. a corner car about his claim by both nations who fought 2 wars over it. a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into a river in north western spain, killing at least 6 people, too were rescued, including the driver. attempts to find other survivors were hampered by strong

currents. there's been heavy rain in the galleys here reach a man accused of killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural centre in the french capital says he did so because he has a pathological hatred of foreigners. the 69 year old has been removed from custody and take into a psychiatric facility. the shooting sparks widespread demonstrations in paris as protesters font with police. out here is a some, a bunch of aid reports on what else the accused has told police. there are some more details from this account from the prosecutors where the, the alleged attacker told the police that it was not the kurdish cultural center that he targeted in the beginning. he went in the morning to a suburb in called denise, and he tried to find people of foreign origin, but there weren't many people there. so he came back home. and around noon he went out to this place where he knew a kurdish cultural center was located and that's where he opened fire. i will also

getting more details about his fire as well that allegedly he got it from a friend of his who is now deceived. a few years ago and he had hidden it in his home throughout all that time, and it is legal for people to get the firearms here in france if they belong to a hunting club. and that's apparently the story from the attacker is that his friend was a member of a hunting club, who gave him an automatic pistol, which he used. but we've also been getting reaction from the kurdish community here . officially. they have not taken the stance, but so far they're still not satisfied with what the police is coming out with saying that this is something that the police a thing that he said and so far they've not seen any proof that this person went to another suburb of france, that it was not a deliberate attack against the kurdish community, and they're still skeptical of what the police, his role has been so far. and they're still calling for justice. iran revolutionary

guard has arrested 7 people with links to britain in connection with anti government protests, some whole dual nationality. the 3 months of unrest is affecting the economy, iran's currency, the reality is hovering at a near record low against the us dollar. the protests were triggered by the death of 22 year old, martha armine and police custody. china's health commission will no longer publish daily figures of cobra 19 infections. numbers will instead be published by another government organization for research purposes. hospitals are becoming overcrowded in china. as it battles a wave of corona, virus infections, but no covert 19 deaths have been reported for 5 consecutive days. one had nurse in beijing gave this assessment of what's happening to mountain make him a little go now a day where cloud is really heavy. we are handling more than 530 emergency cases a day to brett oxygen levels of to patients are very low about 50 to 70 percent.

eric file being as an epidemiologist, he says the mass of surgeon cases has had a great impact on the health system. chinese outbreak right now is the worst of the pen demik. no country will be as hard as china in the absolute number of cases, hospitalization and death. because over the next few months from 3 to 5 months, china will be why haven't at least a 100000000, if not, 1000000000 people in fact it and of that 1000000 debt, which is a point one percent is very, very likely we're, we're thinking most like they'll be double digit number of millions of death because china is the last and it's like a virgin untouched country in terms of cobit and they're very much under vaccinated under boosted they have 130000000 elderly over the 60 who do not have a 3rd shot, we know in the area that you're both really quarterly. so altogether, china is in the world of her and trying to achieve everything else. it has already

said the world, the worst is still yet to come. and i think china will see that the fall out from both the economic fall as well as the health care, because these are very visible when elderly di, in large numbers is very visible to tiny population. because in many ways, a lot of workers right now, and i totally do not want to return to work even if they're healthy, because elderly in china live with their children. and so if their adult child goes to work and then bring the virus back, it will kill grandma and grandpa, brazil in coming justice minister is threatening action against supporters of outgoing president, shire bull sonata. they've been protesting outside army bases. ever since bull scenario lost the election to louise industrial knew that the silver they want the military to overturn the result. the incoming minister says police discovered a bomb and a protest site on saturday. he liked the protesters to terrorists. traditional

christmas messages from 2 leaders have focused on the difficult financial times facing many people around the world for francis and king charles the 3rd acknowledged that this festive period is unusually tough. john hall reports in our time a grave famine of peace. the words of pope francis in his annual christmas blessing will be at or be to the city and the world meant to kill julia. really to let you know, as we gather with our loved ones, let us think of families that experience great difficulty and those struggling in his time of economic crisis. the pope recalled the scars of conflict in syria at the time of height and tensions between israel and the palestinians. he prayed for mutual trust and in yemen, iran, lebanon, haiti, me and ma, and of ganna. stan pope francis prayed for reconciliation and peace. 70 special attention was reserved for ukraine. is he only to bring the pro and may the lord

inspire us to offer concrete gestures of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering and my he enlightened the minds of those who have the power to silence the thunder of weapons and put an immediate in the census for, ah, another seasonal message, this time delivered by a king. i'm standing here in this exquisite chapel of saint george at windsor castle. so close to where my beloved mother, the late queen, is laid to rest with my dear father. having spent a lifetime as air to the throne, king charles the 3rd continued one of his late mother's most popular traditions in the u. k. the monarch's televised christmas broadcast, and he did so to a country troubled by public sector strikes and a crippling cost of living. my mother's belief in the power of that light was an

essential part of her faith in god. and at this time of great anxiety and hardship, be it for those around the world facing conflict, famine or natural disaster, or for those at home, finding ways to pay their bills, to keep their families fed on war. we see it in the humanity of people throughout our nation and the commonwealth, who so readily respond to the plight of others. and in a christmas season, uncommonly marked by hardship and strife, who but santa himself from his arctic grotto to complete a trio of christmas appeals this year. my own christmas week is for us all of course to help those in need giving great love an emp.